"I want the orange juice to quickly evaporate and take me with it." -Tao Lin, from You Are A Little Bit Happier Than I Am

Advantages

As I walked down the road

everything behind me went dark

at first I noticed this

as somebody breathing down my neck

and I would take quick looks

at the darkness making sure

not to move my head at all

and as I reached my house

I waved to my neighbor who

disappeared instantly

I walked up my stairs

and lied down on my bed

erasing the entire world behind me

and the darkness surrounded the bed

and it’s then that I began to feel

a slight discomfort in my stomach

and I fell asleep wondering about

all that I had eaten that day

"Sometimes it isn't time for so long I forget what I'm hoping it's time for." -Suzanne Buffam, from The Irrationalist

Portal

You’ll walk into the house

and you’ll be told

sweetheart don’t be scared

you’ll be sat down

in the middle of a dark

room that looks like your

childhood room

but like a slightly

larger version

in fact everyone

in the room seems

slightly larger than

they should be

the one that looks like your mother

the one that looks like your father

the one that looks like you

you’ll ask

what this is all this about

you’ll be told

sweetheart don’t be scared

we’re just going to make you

more human

and the one that looks like your mother

will start poking you in your temples

and the one that looks like your father

will start stepping on your feet

and the one that looks like you

will stick a finger in each of your nostrils

and it will be an overall unpleasant

experience

but you will realize that

to be more human

isn’t anything more

than being poked and stepped on

and having fingers in your nostrils